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Question - Best Use of SSD (1 Viewer)

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I just got two 120 GB SSDs and was wondering what folks thought would be the ideal setup to use them. I have three EQ machines. The main box runs a lot of other stuff besides EQ. The two other ones are strictly EQ. I was thinking of using an SSD for each of the EQ only boxes.
1. Is it best to install the OS and EQ on them or just place EQ on the SSD? (The current OSs are Win 8.1 and Win 10.)
2. What is the best way to reinstall the OS and get EQ, MQ, etc. on it?
 
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Porn! JK. I would install the OS to another drive, and EQ to the SSD. The reason is, I have a SSD with dual boot Linux (Fedora), and Windows 7 (Gaming/Windows Development), and the OS with Visual Studio, EQ and some other programs fills the 120GB that I gave to the Windows partition (I have about 2GB free). You'd boot up slower, but EQ would still load fast. It's really up to you though. To get EQ on the new computer, you can copy the folder from the old one (so you don't have to wait for the download). MQ2, you can get from here easily. I'd suggest copying your old folder too for your .ini settings and such.
 
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I do not have SSD's, it is on one of my "to do" lists soon after I find a pile of cash in a desk at someones garage sale... heh.

As I understand it from reading up on other folk's experience and opinions though, SSD can crap out at any time and with no warning, Most folks recommend keeping your important files on a regular drive... or at least back ups.

As I understand it as well, moving EQ/MQ to the SSD will save a large amount of wear and tear from your regular HD, depending on how many toons you usually run. The constant read/write (depending on what your toons are doing) keeps the HD highly active. the SSD of course wont have as much issue with this.

That being said, since performance with the rest of the EQ machines is a moot thing... I would say just load EQ on those machines. As Jimbob noted, they will take longer to reboot... but if all they do is EQ, no biggie there.

The main machine how ever, sorta depends on what else you do with it and what kind of gambling man you want to be. A SSD can get you close to a 4-10 second start up, and help speed up a number of other operations (a few instances they actually run slower, but that is uncommon) so there is some reason to give though into putting your OS on the SSD. If so, I would look into a dualboot, or simply unplug your regular drive and install on the SSD...then plug the regular HD back in.... so you will have a back up OS already installed. To save what hair you have left later on if something happens =) (there is no playing EQ with out the occasional hair pulling =P) I am sure the tech heads have a better optiont hen that.... sort of a redneck way of doing it... but it works.
 
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A friend of mine gave me a shitload (if you count 50 as a good number to be addressed as a shitload) of 64gb and 128gb SSD drives and I run quite a few boxes and every box has eq and a swap file on it, that's it and my eq is fast! I have ran 48 clients on 1 box just to see if I could, the fps was shit but it ran... The biggest thing is loading eq and zoning are greatly sped up with SSD but keep in mind you can repair most drive errors on a regular drive, when an SSD dies it goes poof. Back your shit up!
 
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Would recommend you use the SSD for your OS boot drive + eq/games, can put them in raid for redundancy if you are uncomfortable but I dont see the need.

backups? I gave up on that years ago
just pay the fee a year to dropbox or onedrive etc... backups too much of a hassle
It takes me little to no time to setup a new pc/install, I dont understand what people have over a few gb that they must keep.
20ish years in tech have seen way too many people go over hardships hoarding there stuff when they switch pc's
Bookmarks? (chrome/firefox sync) Passwords? (1password, googledoc) Photos/Videos? (dropbox or a amazon prime etc..), old accounting data quickbooks etc? (dropbox again)
OldPrograms(do you really use them anymore?) most apps today I use other than office are free or have some sort of digitial entitlement
 
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m0nk said:
Would recommend you use the SSD for your OS boot drive + eq/games, can put them in raid for redundancy if you are uncomfortable but I dont see the need.

backups? I gave up on that years ago
just pay the fee a year to dropbox or onedrive etc... backups too much of a hassle
It takes me little to no time to setup a new pc/install, I dont understand what people have over a few gb that they must keep.
20ish years in tech have seen way too many people go over hardships hoarding there stuff when they switch pc's
Bookmarks? (chrome/firefox sync) Passwords? (1password, googledoc) Photos/Videos? (dropbox or a amazon prime etc..), old accounting data quickbooks etc? (dropbox again)
OldPrograms(do you really use them anymore?) most apps today I use other than office are free or have some sort of digitial entitlement
Click to expand...

Note: All different ways of backing up your data, but are still forms of backups (just in someone else's grubby, sticky, nosey, hands).
 
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Yeah using Dropbox or google drive as a backup is still a backup. I have network attached storage and my pc just does a backup to it everyday. Pictures are in Google. Some people have lots of data though that they would rather not download again and can't store in a cloud environment, my friend has 5 tb of movies for example.
 
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Thanks for the info, everyone.
I used the suggestions to put the OS and EQ on the SSD. Bootups and zoning are much quicker. I used the following guide to back up the OS:
http://lifehacker.com/5837543/how-to-migrate-to-a-solid-state-drive-without-reinstalling-windows
It was really helpful. The tool it suggested using was very easy to use - Easeus ToDo Backup.

Are there any suggestions for streamlining the SSD? Care and feeding, etc.? Thanks for all of the suggestions so far.
 
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Windows 8 and 10 handle SSDs much better then 7. Also the install size for the OS is much more manageable on 10. Run disk clean up, click the button to clean up system files, and remove all the windows update backups. After that try to keep around 10-15% free space on the SSD otherwise you may notice some slowdown. If its a samsung SSD you can use the "Samsung Magician" tool to re-partition the drive to keep the free space always available.

Next month buy an SSD for every computer you own since now everything else will seem horribly slow.
 
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